Aaniyah
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 103 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,394since 1998
Aaniyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aaniyah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 |
| 2019 | #3,788 | 39 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 |
| 2014 | #2,683 | 65 |
| 2013 | #2,484 | 72 |
| 2012 | #2,734 | 64 |
| 2011 | #2,638 | 67 |
| 2010 | #2,360 | 80 |
| 2009 | #2,148 | 93 |
| 2008 | #2,004 | 104 |
| 2007 | #2,134 | 94 |
| 2006 | #1,939 | 103 |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 |
| 2004 | #2,503 | 67 |
| 2003 | #3,187 | 46 |
| 2002 | #3,069 | 47 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aaniyah! It came in at #10,122, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998–1999, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Aaniyah is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#974 · 1 in 6,106
- Indiana#1,055 · 1 in 6,340
- Ohio#1,245 · 1 in 9,074
- Illinois#1,332 · 1 in 9,034
- North Carolina#1,395 · 1 in 9,283
Best ever in a state: #579 in Mississippi, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #974 | 7 | 1 in 6,106 |
| Indiana | #1,055 | 5 | 1 in 6,340 |
| Ohio | #1,245 | 6 | 1 in 9,074 |
| Illinois | #1,332 | 7 | 1 in 9,034 |
| North Carolina | #1,395 | 5 | 1 in 9,283 |
| Florida | #1,451 | 8 | 1 in 10,292 |
| Georgia | #1,525 | 5 | 1 in 10,145 |
| New York | #1,992 | 6 | 1 in 15,796 |
| Texas | #2,309 | 8 | 1 in 20,834 |
| California | #2,627 | 8 | 1 in 27,286 |
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See more about Aaniyah
- 1,833 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #7,133)
- 2,870 spots since 2020 (#4,263 → #7,133)
- 4,074 spots since 2015 (#3,059 → #7,133)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2006 at #1,939 (103 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,182 girls born in 2008 were named Aaniyah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,939 in 2006, was only 1 in 18,458 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 47.5% of all girls named Aaniyah (662) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 17 | #9,479 (1999) | #9,801 |
| 2000s | 662 | #1,939 (2006) | #3,231 |
| 2010s | 560 | #2,360 (2010) | #3,151 |
| 2020s | 155 | #4,090 (2021) | #5,236 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aaniyah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 19,754 of them was named Aaniyah, which outranked 89.4% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,139Saray94
- #2,139Shylah94
- #2,139Yana94
- #2,148Aaniyah93
- #2,148Addysen93
- #2,148Alysha93
- #2,148Anijah93
- #2,165Alona92
- #2,165Analee92
- #2,165Chesney92
Tied with 16 names at #2,148; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.